Mary Henderson Eastman | |
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| Born | Mary Henderson February 24, 1818 Warrenton, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | February 24, 1887 (aged 69) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Resting place | Oak Hill Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Notable works | Aunt Phillis's Cabin |
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| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Thomas Truxtun (grandfather) |
Mary Henderson Eastman (February 24, 1818 – February 24, 1887) was an American historian and novelist who is noted for her works about Native American life. She was also an advocate of slavery in the United States. In response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eastman defended Southern slaveholding society by writing Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (1852), which earned her considerable fame.[1] She was the wife of the American illustrator and army officer Seth Eastman.
- ^ Wells, Jonathan Daniel (2016). A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-35233-4.